How much time has passed? Ask your heart

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Pollatos, Olga ^a   Yeldesbay, Azamat ^b   Pikovsky, Arkady ^b   Rosenblum, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heart cycle; Interoception; Interoceptive sensitivity; Synchronization; Time interval reproduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROCEPTIVE SENSITIVITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SYMPATHOVAGAL TONE; SYNCHRONIZATION INDEX; TIME PERCEPTION; TIME REPRODUCTION; VAGUS TONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904872660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2014.00015     Document Type: Article

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